Convention Rejects School Exit Strategy Proposal
Southern Baptist leaders declined to back an exit strategy urging removal of children from public schools in favor of homeschooling or private schooling. The resolutions committee sent a moderated proposal instead, while an anti alcohol ban for SBC trustees was approved alongside other measures.
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Southern Baptist Convention
Greensboro
N.C
Roger Moran
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Texas
SBC
Taylors
S.C
Public Schools
Moran
Jim Richards
Southern Baptists of Texas Convention
HUD to reopen more N.O. public housing units this summer
HUD plans to open 1,000 additional New Orleans public housing units this summer and boost voucher payments to landlords by 35 percent. The plan includes rebuilding St. Bernard and three other developments as a mix of public housing, rental housing, and single family homes while repairing the least damaged sites. About 1,000 of the pre Katrina 5,100 families have returned. authorities say rents have surged, limiting private housing access for many residents.
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New Orleans
Department of Housing and Urban Development
St. Bernard
HUD
Alphonso Jackson
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Four NYC stabbings prompt man interrogation
Police questioned a man in connection with four stabbings in New York City within hours. Canadian tourists near Times Square were stabbed, a Texan was wounded in a subway, and a Houston man was stabbed on the Upper West Side. All victims were hospitalized in stable or critical condition.
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New York
Times Square
9-1-1
Jane Lehman
Rockefeller Center
Christopher McCarthy
Houston
Manhattan
Upper West Side
McCarthy
Central Park
Gay Episcopalian bishop urges rejection of discrimination
The first openly gay Episcopal bishop urged the Episcopal General Convention to reject a proposed moratorium on electing gay or lesbian bishops. Bishop W. Gene Robinson, joined by gay rights activists, said the convention should not dictate the Anglican Communion but discern God’s will and act accordingly amid global tensions over homosexuality.
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Columbus
Ohio
Episcopal General
New Hampshire
W. Gene Robinson
Anglican Communion
Man gets 10 years in prison for shooting police dog
Robert Lee Cooke was sentenced to ten years after being found guilty in April of malicious wounding for shooting the police dog Igno during a burglary. He also faced a firearms violation conviction and was paralyzed from the waist down after October 2004 gunfire with Officer Andy Gluba, Igno’s handler. His lawyers planned an appeal.
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Charlottesville
Robert Lee Cooke
Igno
Andy Gluba
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